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  • Yeah, right there. - What? Why are you in the back? [mumbling]

  • You're so much better than them. - Well, I appreciate that. - Hey, you ready to go? - Yeah, let me just show this routine

  • to the guys real quick. - All right. - Yeah

  • Take your time

  • Hey! - Hey, there's my star student. I was hoping you'd join in on a routine today

  • Probably best not to do that anymore. Don't want to set the bar too high. - Okay [laugh]

  • Bye Ms. Zota! Se you next time!

  • Hey, I told you to call me Kalina! I'm not your history teacher.

  • Your last name Zota? - Yeah, my dad's Japanese... What, you couldn't tell?

  • Honestly, not really. - Nah, I'm just kidding. I'm not really into my Japanese side of the family.

  • Okay, so that's why you're teaching a bunch of kids that are Asian to dance, get back to your roots!

  • Right, actually hip hop does have its origins in feudal Japan.

  • Really? - No. I'm just kidding

  • I, I would believe you. - I know, but if you want my history lesson, see you next week? - Sounds good. - Okay

  • Bye Ms. Zota! - Bye!

  • Gosh! - Are you here to pick me up or flirt with my dance instructor? - Oh now you're ready. Grab your stuff. Let's go

  • Hey Tess, you wanted to see me. - Oh, yes have a seat.

  • So, as you know, next month is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

  • It is...?

  • [trying to be polite] Yes!

  • Oh! Yeah, I thought you said- Right, of course! [nervous laughter]

  • Great well, um, I just wanted, you to know, that I am really supportive of it

  • And and actually, we want to do something really special here at Silo. - That's great!

  • Thanks... - Also, I noticed that you have a lot of Chinese friends in the office

  • So, I was thinking, if I gave you a budget could you put together some sort of like, special event or a party to celebrate?

  • Uh, yeah, I guess so. Um, uh, what's the budget?

  • Um, $500. [totally going to get stuff done with this]

  • Wow...

  • Cool. Yeah, I think you could round us up

  • Thank you. - Oh, no no, thank you!

  • For your heritage and everything that it brings to Silo.

  • You're wel-come?

  • Celebrate Asians, celebrate Asians. [intense thinking]

  • Open bar, obviously. Johny Walker, Hennessy, Soju...

  • It's our entire budget right there, dang. Hey Andre real quick. Um Tess just asked me to plan the Asian Heritage Month event

  • Y'all have a month?

  • Yeah, uh, duh? You didn't, you didn't know? It's May, you know. Anyways, back in February

  • Didn't you help plan the event for Black History Month? - Yeah, man. It was awesome. [laugh] - Sick, was it lit?

  • I was talking about the month...

  • Right! No, of course, Black History Month is super awesome. I was... - Dude. I'm kidding. Ha, it was lit as f*ck!

  • Um dude, so where'd you have it at?

  • You didn't go?

  • Do not support our history. - No, no, no. No, I I probably just didn't get the email. That's probably what happened. - Dude, I'm kidding

  • [gets trolled again]

  • Yeah... - We had at Luther's Steakhouse.

  • Luther's? That place is super fancy. Didn't that eat up your entire budget?

  • Nah, we had like five thousand dollars, which is actually cut down from previous years. I'm telling you man,

  • whatever old white folks they got award last see we're at the Beverly Hilton.

  • This next year they're gonna try to throw some faculty...

  • Hey, Tess...

  • Oh, Andrew! How can I help you?

  • Just had a really quick question

  • Um, I was running some of the numbers for the APA event and also asking some other groups here.

  • Just wondering, is there a reason why we're being allocated

  • $500 when Black History Month got ten times that amount?

  • Oh, I'm so sorry. I thought I was being more sensitive.

  • Um, more sensitive to what? Oh, to to your different cultures.

  • You see, um, David Kim actually came in here and he asked about the event, and he was like, wait a minute,

  • you know, the Korean American engineers group, they need their own budget. And then actually, Puja from the South Asian coalition was like,

  • hold on, what about us? We need our own budget. And then from there, I was just pretty much approached by everybody

  • I mean AJ from the Filipino group, Kindy from Hong Kong Association. I mean gosh, [laugh]

  • There are so many Asian groups here at Silo!

  • Isn't it great how diverse we are?

  • Yeah. [totally in agreement]

  • So I had to divide the budget up, but I thought that you, specifically, could reach out to the Chinese Americans.

  • [sigh] David, why are you taking part of the APA Heritage Month budget for the Koreans? - Dude, we have our own history in this country.

  • Koreans always do this whenever there's an Asian event. You guys always gotta make your own thing. - Clear pride, b*tch.

  • You want me to give you part of my budget? - No not part... all...

  • Well, Hong Kong has its own unique identity from mainland China. - But it doesn't matter we're still...

  • Lets leave the politics out of this. Its Asian American History Month! - Asian Pacific.

  • And I think it's heritage not history. - Whatever,

  • okay, this is getting so confusing. - Telling me. I feel like we're having grouped into Asian American

  • That's why they need to add the, "Pacific." - But it's still Asian!

  • Are we though? - Of course!

  • No.

  • We have to put a South in front of us for you to include us. - Let's just combine budgets and everyone can be celebrated.

  • I actually think we should have our own month. You do know that by population, we are almost the same as China.

  • Wonder if anyone's pushing for that in Congress

  • Okay, so if Indian people are included, then why not Russians or the Middle East? I mean that's all technically Asia, right?

  • Oh my god, I do not know. I spent like an hour on Reddit and I couldn't make it past all the racist comments.

  • You should find out!

  • Half of you should find out too. - I'm guessing it is more to do with ethnic heritage than what continent people live on?

  • That makes sense. Whatever it is it should not be this confusing or this divisive.

  • I wish Asian people could be as united as black people.

  • Well, we have a very different history here

  • ...???... talking about?

  • Both.

  • You know my friend Tom said the same thing. He's like

  • Asian people are fragmented in the US because we have different histories

  • Chinese people, Japanese, Vietnamese, whatever, like we all came to America for very different reasons and therefore had very different struggles.

  • We lacked one common struggle unlike black people.

  • Right cuz we're so lucky we had slavery. - I think it's also because our homelands hate each other.

  • Andrew why are you getting so worked up about this? Even you admitted

  • you didn't know about Asian Heritage Month until your white boss told you yesterday.

  • See, I think that's the thing.

  • I'm upset at myself, for not knowing. I'm

  • upset at other Asians who did know, for not spreading the word and more awareness, and I'm upset at my

  • co-workers for all being little b*tches fighting over crumbs.

  • Unless we band together, we're never going to be taken seriously at my company.

  • Well as much as I want to write the Asian-American Constitution with you, I gotta go.

  • Oh, what's up? - Class ended 20 minutes ago.

  • Oh, shoot, you're right!

  • Yeah. - Sorry to keep you... - No, I wanted to stay.

  • I'll see you later! - Bye! - Bye.

  • Are you done yet? [the face of being left out of the conversation] - Yeah. Let's go!

  • Alright thanks for meeting with me everyone. - They'd sea bass in the cafeteria today. - What? - Are you kidding me?

  • Look listen.

  • We have 30 days to plan a party for Asian Heritage Month

  • okay, and right now all of us have what, five hundred dollars?

  • What are you gonna do with that Kindy?

  • Get a couple platters of dim sum and play some John Woo DVDs?

  • Yes, that's productive

  • AJ! Five hundred dollars. What is that two karaoke machines for three hours?

  • Well, just thinking of borrowing my parents. My point is is that we're stronger together.

  • I'm not saying that we're not all from different

  • backgrounds or that we don't each deserve to be celebrated and recognized but we're here in America together.

  • And we're already so marginalized! If we stick together, we can progress faster because we can share everyone's wins!

  • When Korea was in the World Cup, were we not all rooting for them? - Yeah. You're welcome

  • Hey, but didn't you take pride in Jeremy Lin during linsanity? - And Yaoming! - And he wasn't even from Hong Kong

  • but we're all building off each other right? Manny Pacquiao, didn't we all want the Asian guy to win and

  • Aziz getting an Emmy? All we just glad to see any Asian being recognized with the greatest? - Aziz! He's ours.

  • So let's put our division and pride aside.

  • Let's look at one another in appreciation for what we all contribute to the fabric of America.

  • Let's come together as one for one greater purpose:

  • To do the best d*mn API

  • AHM event Silo has ever seen!

  • [AJ claps by himself]

  • So who's with me? - I love claiming Bruno Mars.

  • I'm in

  • Ellen Wong is my favorite comedian. Don't tell Hasan Minhaj. I'm in

  • Me too, I'm in. - Yes. - I'm in. - Great!

  • Fine! But, it has to say co-presented by the Korean American engineers group. - Damn it. - What?

  • Kalina!

  • Andrew! Hey!

  • I got your text. Is everything oiay? - Oh, yeah. No, everything's fine.

  • I uh, just wanted to let you know that I've figured this whole party. - Oh great!

  • You didn't have to come all the way down here to tell me.

  • Yes, it is correct!

  • Um, yeah,

  • I just felt like I couldn't have really done it without you, and those talks that we had. So I

  • wanted to ask in person if you wanted to go to the party with me. - Sure!

  • - And you know, maybe we could grab a bite to eat before and... - Oh!

  • You're asking me out on a date.

  • A da- wha- uh-

  • Yeah. - No, it's just that, I don't remember the last time I was asked on a date in person.

  • It's a little weird, huh?

  • It's actually very refreshing

  • When's the party?

  • Um, I think like in a few weeks so I can let you know. - Oh, okay, um, are you doing anything right now?

  • No. - Let's hang out! - Cool, uh...

  • What do you want to do? - Um, how about dim sum?

  • Aahhhhh, yeah, I love dim sum! [ofc you do] - It's so good, I haven't had it in forever.

  • Yeah, it's great. I don't know if any place is open right now...

  • [Classy]

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